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Cher Bacigalupi's avatar

Brilliantly written! Your descriptions and analogies paint a grotesquely vivid picture of the Grim Reaper of the Senate and his legacy—equal parts revolting and darkly entertaining. As much as I’d love to forget his impact, it’s a piece of history that (hopefully) future generations will look back on and learn from. Thank you for capturing it so perfectly!

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Ron Nelson's avatar

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hell awaits

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Geraldine Allen's avatar

Mitch, you’ve been a bad boy enabler of the fall of democracy. Go sit down and think about what you’ve done.

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Kim's avatar

This is pure poetry!

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Andrea J's avatar

What a send off! Brilliant. TY.

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Laura Ray Warren's avatar

Thank you for this. As a Kentuckian, I have seen far too much of what McConnell has caused for our state and nation. Brilliantly written. I copied and pasted and shared this on my Facebook page and attributed it to your substack page.

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Jeff Braimes's avatar

Don't let the door slam on your pointy head on the way out, Mitch. Then don't let it slam again twice really fast after the initial pause while you grope for your glasses on the linoleum. Then BAM BAM BAM in quick succession, damn! You never had much of a chin to begin with, but now it's pretty much all wattle and maw, those sad eyes hovering. Gold Watch!

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Lisa Wheeler's avatar

And GOOD-Bye

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Robin Garr's avatar

Many thanks for this glorious evisceration. As a Louisville native who covered Mitch for the late, great Louisville Times back when he was the local county executive in the early '80s, I can testify that every word of your report is accurate, and that he evolved very little if at all during the years that followed.

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Tricia Moore's avatar

A beautiful (though rather charitable!) send off to one of the most damaging old fossils to ever drag his protective carapace through the halls of Congress. Mitch McTurtle will go down in whatever history books survive the purge on education, as being almost solely responsible for the most traitorous, corrupt and misaligned collection of cells to showboat as ‘president’ of the USA. Should democracy have the strength to survive this abomination of an administration, I hope the heated tridents of Mitch’s final resting place keep prodding him eternally as a reminder of all the chaos and destruction he caused.

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Terry Gailey's avatar

A POS.

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Ellen Lende's avatar

Ooooh, fuck. Some of your words - I have to look up. But I am smart enough to get how brilliant you are.❤️

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Elizabeth OBrien's avatar

What is the author’s name? Brilliant.

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Closer to the Edge's avatar

Rook T. Winchester

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USDD - US Democracy Defenders's avatar

Dear Substack Author,

Is it okay if I copy and paste this post onto my own substack, and include the link to this page for you as well?

Thank You!

- USDD

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Nola Nowland's avatar

Glorious.

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Blox Stax's avatar

Fuck you, Mitch. You useless, troglodyte, WANKER. #GOODRIDDANCE

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